Tuesday, May 20, 2008 – The Usual Suspects

Hollywood is America culture intensified by several orders of magnitude. That can be unsettling – you really don't want to see the real thing, just the movies and television shows.  Perhaps the tourists who show up in the block between Grauman's Chinese Theater and the home of the Oscars, the Kodak Theater, get queasy.

Across the street, with the new Disney sword-and-wizard movie at the El Capitan, you get the mutant jugglers –

Disoriented tourists at Hollywood and Highland – but the walkway does frame things.

The appropriate reference at the Kodak Theater –

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Technical Note:

Photographs after March 3, 2008, were taken with a Nikon D200 – or a Nikon D70 when noted. All previous photographs were taken with the D70. The lenses used are (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto, or (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. Photography here is modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  The earliest photography in the archives was done with a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom.

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